TRENCH'S REMEDY FOS? FITS AND EPILEPSY OURES THH SEVEREST AND LONQ-8TANDINQ CA3C3 8b W*«kt' Tri&amp;l Treatment 0»ly FIFTEEH SB1LUNGS, UrriLffe P*M 11*8. Solomos, 17J Montague St., Sooth Melbourne, wrote:—"My little girl Sjrlri* suffered from Bt» tor twelve months. She had as many as 60 In one niglit and tomeone had to watch her all 'he time. 1 had her under a lead ing doctor. I then tried an herbalist, bnt she was getting worse. When at the hospital Mrs. Freeman, of Alexan dra St., Collingwood, gate me a book ou Trrtich's Treat ment. I got a packet and the second one cared her. She has not had a fit (or 14 months, and enjoys good health. I will be Terjr pleaaed to recommend yonr treatment to anyone.'^. nuiuu BOOOfT fm na UVE STOCK INSURANCE ALL CLASSES OF STOCK INSURED AGAINST DEJU.ii WtOSJ ANT CAUSE. FOALING RISKS ■ COMMENCING SVITH ATTEMPT TO FOAL AND DEATH PROM ANT CAUSE THERE AFTER. iATES UMYliST CURRF.NT. CLAIMS PR01TPTL? 1'AID. CT1VE AGEFJTS WANTED WHERE NOT REPRESENTEE A...

I!tl|e Ball an Mimas. rOUUSIIKD KVKItV THURSDAY. "Ballad, Thursday, Siu't. 3, 1014 Local and General News. Alternative tenders (labor and material, labor only, or material only) are invited for about 40 chains of new fenoing and 14 chains of repairs at the Bnllan'racceourse. Tenders close at 12 noon on Saturday, September 12th, In common with other districts, the rainfall here is much below the aver age. For January it was 52 points below; February, 158; March, 119; . A u.uL.7ii, r_ JV1 •. _T« 1 Jn 1 jr 12; and August, 20S—S42 points be low the average for the eight months. Despite this fact, with rain this month, the season promises well'in this di,strict, On Friday, September 4th, the Ballan Amateur Dramatic Society will give an entcrtaiumenfc in the local hall, in. aid of the Caledoniau I Park. Two farces, "Ici On Parle j Francais" and "That Hascal Pat," will be staged, and Miss Midge Man ning, Miss M. Killey, Mr li. \V. Mar shall, and Mr A. J. Creswell will con tribute to the pr...

IF you have tried numbers of rem ediei for your com plaint and failed to get any benefit, DON'T GIVE UP HOPE, there is still my system to try; and It has proved itself In 40 years' experience in treat ing every disease. " Where Ignorance is a Crim#,* just published. You cannW afford to be without it. Price 3d. Medicine tent post free, wrapped ftccutely i® plain wrapper. PERMANENTLY CUSPS Hjdatida.LWer *n«i KMneyTi oublci UtstHc ulcer#, Internal Qrotr^s 3/4 and 5,1} per botlle. CfceroitU s^r Storet.^ ^ S. A. PALMER, iSH SUNDERS LA2"TE, MEL BOURNE FIVE RULES FOR FORTUNE HOW SOME SECUHED SUCJCJJiSS. 1. Cultivate ami perfect yaur ideas Experiment. The world is eager for something new, which. however, sim ple it may be, will save labor, or ex pense, or do things better. Let it be more convenient, or promoto pleasure reduce waste. People who handle things in every day use are the natural inventors of better things, and the natural capital ists of to-morrow. Read the splendid advice that E...

RECORD WHEAT AREA. NEW SOUTH WALES FIGURES. It is estimated by the Government statistician' (Mr. Trivett) that New South Wales has a record area of 1.108:600 acres under wheat this year. It is estimated that a little over three and a. half million acres will bo leaped for grain, and th« balance cut for hay.

GENERAL INFORMATION. A large whale gives ou an averag* gO tons of oil. A lifeboat costs nearly 30s. a week to maintain. j. Eight cubic feet ol snow makp owe cubic loot of water. The average cost of a convict In prison is iV-i'-i 10s. per annum Man is said to be subject to over 1,200 different diseases. IJalms never live longer than 250 years. Ths yew-is the longest lived of trees. A French landowner i« forced by law to divide his estate equally be tween his children. In Italy there are more theatres In proportion to the population thaji _L- .nr nfh •mi-ip* In the last. 60 years the speed ol the ocean steamers has been increas ed from 81 to 23 knots per hour. Five hundred motor carriages per year is the average output ol" a Paris lirm ior the last five yeaia. Nearly 7">.0U0 tons of corks are needed for the bottled beer and aerated waters consumed annually in Britain. Although ancient Athens Is be lieved tq have once held a popula; tion of 500.000. it lias now but 30,000 people. Si...

BROUGHT IT DOWN. ' J At a football match tjie other day ft began to rain heavily, and a full blown masher, who was seated on the grand stand, put up his umbrella It hail not been long up when some people at. the back began to com plain at not being able to see tho game. The masher, overhearing tho talk, turned round, and, looking through his eyeglass, exclaimed : " 1—all—I beg your pardon ; but can't you see over my umbrella ? " The complainers, however, mado |io reply, whereupon a wag shouted from the back seat : " No Hertie. we can't see over it, but we can see through it ! " The umbrella went down suddenly, junid roars qi' laughter.

FLOWERY. The Ootacamund Horse Show must have been a fearful and wonderful spectacle, judging by the account of j tho special correspondent of the "Madras Standard." " 'Oh, how hot the horrid sori",J r-"-.. soft miss whispered to my hearing. If refuge there was it was only in the gymkhana pavilion. Certainly in a beautiful manner the angels of Eng land showed a clean pair of heels to the other end of the green lawn, where they made for tho pavilion. "The sight was goodlier than Fri day's. The crowd was more multitu dinous. The lady population prepon derated. "Thero was a rider who fell and then the horse did "yell." The horse with tho least number of faults jump ed with joy and raced in mirth. For he was the first and foremost. "In one event there were threo prizes in the card, but there were only two competitors in the field. . . Hand-iu-glove were they. The pony and rider roll and reel in jolly mirth. The ladies mutter words of praise. The gent'emen whistle wlioops of joy."

WHY HE WAS PLAYED. A well-known cricketer told us this story the other day:— Me ' was staying in a small country village and on the local half-holiday he wont to see tho village cricket club play on the green. Afterwards ho il.scussed the match with the captain and ventured, to make a few criticisms. "There was one man playing for you to-day," he said, "that I can't think why you have him in the team at all." The captain nodded wearily. "X know who you mean," he said. "Jones, the man who went in last." "Yes, that's the man," replied the other. "Why do you play him? He can't bat, he can't bowl, and he miss ed at least two easy catches." The fellows will have him in the team," grumbled the captain. "Why? Is he so popular?" asked tho critic. "Great Scot, no!" exclaimed the captain. "The fellows hate him like poison. But his three sisters are the prettiest girls in tho village, and they always come and watch the match when ho plays."

i. A CANNON WITH 93 MILES RANGE. A new efcctro-mngncMc cannon has boon sold to a German firm, by Pro fessor Jlirkckuu!, whose experiments pro\e its capacity of firing a two ton projectile to ft distance of 12J jniles. It is claimed that on this principle the firing' capacity of n gim increases with the length of the ban-el, and that with a barrel «^2ft. lOin. long the cannon would fire a two-ton projectile the enormous dis tance of D3 miles. The gun is expected to prove cheaper to manufacture than those now' in use, as there is no pressure from "powder Rases to provide a gainst. and the barrels can be con structed from cheap iron tubes with a casing of copper wires to convey the electric current. Norwegian experts are confident that nothing so revolutionary in artillery has boon seriously proposed since the invention of gunpowder.

A HOLIDAY ROMANCE. His daughter had teen a month at the seaside, when ho received that startling wire from a "friend of the family": — "Mary married this morning. Your daughter a peeress. What's to bo done I" As fast as the express _ could carry him, Mr. Havdup hied him to the fashionable watering place. He came back by the next tram a disappointed and desperate man. One thing he had found time to do, and that was to point out to the "friend of the family," in language more forcible than polite, that "peeress' was scarce ly the feminine of "pierrot" for that ,-as the husband Mary had secure^.

A CHINESE INCUBATOR. HOW HENS' AND DUCKS' EGGS ARE HATCHED UNDER EICE. Iu an American consular report pub lished is described an ingenious method by which Chinees in the district adja cent to Amoy hatch both hen's and ducks' eggs. The breedor first takes a quantity of unhusked rice and roasts it, cooling it down by fanning or by allowing the wind to blow through until it is luke warm. He then spreads a three-inch layer of the rice in a wooden tub, and places about 100 eggs thereon; another layer of rice, the second and subsequent layers being about two inches in thick ness, is spread over the eggs. Each tub has six layers of rica and five layers of eggs, so that there are 500 eggs in each tub. The rice is heated oneo every twenty-four hours, the eggs being taken out at such times. When the eggs are again put in the rice the bottom layer is placed on top and each of the other layers one row lower down, while the eggs previously in the centre of the tub are placed at the edge. The ent...

THE MASTER PASSION. CHAPTER XV. WHERE THE BIRD HAD FLOWN. . "I don't acknowledge tlint you have any right either to my love or my duty," said Ida Duval, throwing back her head, whilst Iior eyes Hashed haugh tily. Her husband was lounging on a divan, with the mouthpiece of a long ■■chibouque" between his lips. His feet wero thrust into a pair of Orien tal slippers, embroidered in seed-pearls, the gilt of ono of his lemiuine ad mirors, and the crimson and gold smokiug-jacket and cap which complet ed his costume, had onco hung in a crowded stall of iv Turkish bazaar. Tho room was tilled with "bric-a brac," and quaint artistic trilles, such as the soul of a "dilettante" loves. Gorgeous shawls and rugs wero strown about tho studio, draped on the wall, half-concealing the lovely face of a grisette, tossed on to a divan, or thrown across an empty easel. There wore pictures on every side, all depicting human life at a time ■when old age is but a distant shadow in tho far off future, and tho...

IMMIGRATION SUSPENDED. The Victorian Government has sus pended all its immigration work, tho Premier explaining that the Govern ment lias more important business to attend to at the present time. Mr. Hagelthorn remarked that it was more important for tho State Government to see that tho people already here suffered as little as possible during tho war than to attmept to bring new set tlers here at present. Several hun dred immigrants, consisting of farm workers and domestics, are on their way to Victoria, and those requiring such assistance should apply to the Immigration Bureau early. The im migration authorities do not know how the war is going to affect the departure of immigrants from the Old Country. A gas fitter named Ellis Mamsfcono 41, was knocked down and severely in jured by a train at tho Nicliolson stroet crossing at Footscrny on Sinn day. He was assisting in tho laying : of a gaa pipe and failed to jump clear 1 of a passing train. Tho injured man, • who lives at William...

LINSEED FOR CALVES. A very good mixture for calf rearing is made of skim milk and linseed gruel. Take two pounds of linseod overnight and lot it soak in three gallons of water Next day boil it for i!0 minutes, and a few minutes before the boiling is completed, stir in %lb. of gruel, made from flour. One pint of this boiled lin seed is added to three quarts of warm skim milk, and'from the fourth to the ninth week the calf gets his allowance three times a day.

District News. [From Ouk Coiuikspomdrnts and Exchanges).] BLAKEVILLE A meeting of residents of Blake- ville was held in the Mechanics hall on Monday night, to raise funds to assist the Patriotic Fund, A com mittee was appointed, and they de cided to hold a euchre party and dance on Friday, September 4th, all proceeds to go to the funds.